The Boxing Episode: Difference between revisions

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[[File:CSI-fight-night 1343.jpg|link=CSI|frame|"I'm guessing head trauma."]]

 

{{quote|''' KOWALSKI''': Logic! Exactly! Boxing has nothing to do with logic. It is sport taken to its purest nut. It is muscles, sweat, guts, torque, load . . . I mean, you ever meet a logical person who would bite off another man's ear?

'''FRASER''': It's just another argument for protective helmets. With ear flaps.|'''Ray Kowalski and Constable Benton Fraser''', ''Due South'', "Mountie and Soul"}}

 

Largely associated with [[Mystery of the Week]] television series, this is an episode that is wholly or in part structured around the sport of boxing. These episodes tend to crop up most often in [[Action Series|action/adventure]] and [[Crime and Punishment Series|crime solving series]], but they can also be played for laughs in [[Half-Hour Comedy|sitcoms]].

 

Compare with [[Pro Wrestling Episode]] and the [[Forced Prize Fight]].

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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* One of the early episodes of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' involved the [[Monster of the Week]] interfering with Touma's idol's boxing matches. However, he had been shown to be a proficient boxer before this episode, and his Digimon partner wears boxing gloves, so this didn't come ''entirely'' out of nowhere...